{"id":405887,"date":"2026-07-21T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T00:17:09","slug":"breaking-meadow-fire-in-san-francisco-county-sparked-by-human-activity-on-july-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405887\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Meadow Fire in San Francisco County sparked by human activity on July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/904274ad-cc18-4c6a-b772-fd81b276817c.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Updates on California wildfires.\" alt=\"Updates on California wildfires.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Updates on California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First discovered: 2 days ago, 12:13 a.m. July 18<\/p>\n<p>Initial location:  San Francisco County, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Fire type: Wildfire<\/p>\n<p>Fire name: Meadow<\/p>\n<p>A new wildfire was reported 12:13 a.m. July 18 in in San Francisco County, California.<\/p>\n<p>Meadow Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the National Park Service for two days. It is believed to be human caused and due to undetermined (remarks required). Currently, there are no details on the containment of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Historic data<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, California witnessed 8,011 fires caused by humans, as reported by NIFC, which burned 990,939 acres of wildland.<\/p>\n<p>Source: National Interagency Fire Center<\/p>\n<p>United Robots Sacramento<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published July 20, 2026 at 3:57 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updates on California wildfires. The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-405887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}